Mike Brown

Forward Mike Brown was claimed off waivers by Montreal and it appears he will be in the Canadiens’ lineup for Monday night’s game against the Sharks at SAP Center.

Since Brown was claimed, the Sharks saved roughly $271,000 for salary cap purposes. Brown signed a two-year contract with the Sharks before the 2014-15 season that had an annual average value of $1.2 million.

But the Sharks did not make any additional moves Monday on what was a fairly quiet NHL trade deadline day.

Brown has played in 44 games this season with one goal, two assists and 63 penalty minutes. But his role became increasingly limited he played just two of the Sharks’ last 13 games after Dainius Zubrus returned from his upper body injury Jan. 26.

Brown played two games after Tommy Wingels was hurt against the Florida Panthers on Feb. 18, but was scratched the last two games after the arrival of Nick Spaling from Toronto.

Tommy Wingels will be out of the Sharks’ lineup with an upper body injury for the near future but the team does not believe his absence will be long term, coach Pete DeBoer said Friday afternoon.

DeBoer said the plan right now is for Wingels to remain with the Sharks for the duration of their road trip, which, after Friday’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes, continues Monday in St. Louis and concludes Wednesday in Colorado. A team spokesman said Wingels was at the team hotel Friday.

Count Sharks forwards Joe Pavelski and Mike Brown as among those disappointed for John Scott, who will likely be unable to participate in the NHL All-Star Game at the end of the month.

Brown was planning to watch the game after his former teammate and fellow tough guy was voted to be the captain of the Pacific Division team. Pavelski was looking forward to seeing Scott and playing with him once again during the course of the Jan. 30-31 event. Scott played for the Sharks in the 2014-15 season.

But right after Scott was acquired by Montreal from Arizona in a multiplayer deal on Friday, the Canadiens assigned him to their AHL team in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Any player who is in the minor leagues is ineligible to play in the All-Star Game.

The addition of Micheal Haley to the fourth line gives a pretty good indication of what kind of game the Sharks are expecting from the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night at Honda Center.

Dainius Zubrus will play center between Mike Brown and Micheal Haley, giving the Sharks a good dose of sandpaper as they seek their eighth straight road victory. Anaheim is 1-1-1 so far on its six-game homestand, and are in fifth place in the Pacific Division with 23 points. The Sharks are second with 28 points, three points back of Los Angeles.

Logan Couture was on the ice with Ben Smith, Matt Tennyson and Karl Stollery after the rest of the Sharks finished their morning skate Tuesday. Couture said Monday he’s feeling better, but isn’t putting sort of timeline on a return.

Couture mentioned how he’s talked with Mike Brown at times as he’s gone through his rehabilitation. Brown had the same injury last season, suffered a setback as he went through his recovery, and missed close to four months.

“Even to be out in the first place, it’s tough. You’re not contributing, you’re not really doing much,” Brown said Tuesday. “You’re just sitting there recovering and trying to rehab. But we had pretty similar injuries. He had a plate put into his, and long story short, I think we probably needed one in mine. Because it took me about a three-and-a-half month recovery.

A lot of words that could describe what life has been like for Chicago Blackhawks forward Andrew Desjardins the past several months. One word, though, is as succinct and accurate as any.

Perfect.

“My year last year couldn’t have been any better,” Desjardins said Wednesday inside the visitor’s locker room at SAP Center. “Had my baby boy, got to hold the Stanley Cup. The last six months, it was just a crazy feeling. You can’t draw it up any better than that.”

Searching for their fifth straight win on this road trip, the Sharks are making some adjustments to their forward lines and to one combination on defense for their game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday at Consol Energy Center.

Joonas Donskoi moves up to the second line with Patrick Marleau and Joel Ward, Nikolay Goldobin draws back in as he’ll skate on the third line with Tomas Hertl and Tommy Wingels, and Matt Nieto is back on the fourth line with Chris Tierney and Mike Brown.

A couple changes lineup-wise for the Sharks on Tuesday night against the Boston Bruins. Matt Nieto replaces Nikolay Goldobin on the second line with Patrick Marleau and Joel Ward, and Micheal Haley takes Nieto’s spot on the fourth line, which will also have Mike Brown and Chris Tierney.

Goldobin, it appears, will be a scratch after he sat for the third period of Saturday’s game against the Buffalo Sabres.

Mirco Mueller will play his second straight game alongside Brenden Dillon, leaving out Matt Tennyson.

The penalty kill has been one of the Sharks’ strengths in recent games. But it’ll be tested on an entirely new level against the Bruins, who right now own the top power play in the NHL.

Sharks coach Pete DeBoer juggled his forward lines in advance of Friday’s game against the Detroit Red Wings in the opener of a six-game road trip.

Patrick Marleau will center the second line with Joel Ward and Nikolay Goldobin, and Tomas Hertl will be the third line center between Tommy Wingels and Joonas Donskoi.

Chris Tierney was with Matt Nieto and Mike Brown were on the fourth line. Joe Thornton, Joe Pavelski and Melker Karlsson were on the first line, as they were for the majority of Tuesday’s loss to the New York Islanders.